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Definition of Folkways
1. folkway [n] - See also: folkway
Lexicographical Neighbors of Folkways
Literary usage of Folkways
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Democracy in Education: A Social Interpretation of the History of Education by Joseph Kinmont Hart (1918)
"As in all primitive communities, education in early Rome was provided for in the
customs, habits, and traditions of the folkways. ..."
2. Democracy in Education: A Social Interpretation of the History of Education by Joseph Kinmont Hart (1918)
"As in all primitive communities, education in early Rome was provided for in the
customs, habits, and traditions of the folkways. ..."
3. Social Adaptation: A Study in the Development of the Doctrine of Adaptation by Lucius Moody Bristol (1915)
"WILLIAM G. SUMNER (1840-1910) folkways Although Sumner was primarily a sociologist,
we have in folkways a mine of classified information concerning social ..."
4. The Concept Standard: A Historical Survey of what Men Have Conceived as by Anne Mary Nicholson (1910)
"folkways are unconscious, spontaneous, unco-ordinated mass- phenomena, ...
These folkways are not creations of human purpose and will, but are like the ..."
5. Through War to Peace: A Study of the Great War as an Incident in the by Albert Galloway Keller (1921)
"folkways AND SOCIETAL CODES OP CONDUCT THE central figure in societal evolution
is, as we shall view it, a human society. This is a group of human beings ..."
6. Pioneers of the Old Southwest: A Chronicle of the Dark and Bloody Ground by Constance Lindsay Skinner (1921)
"... CHAPTER II folkways THESE migrations into the inland valleys of the Old South
mark the first great westward thrust of the American frontier. ..."
7. Trade-morals: Their Origin, Growth and Province by Edward Day Page (1914)
"Business is, therefore, due to an effort to cater to the folkways which it
discovers in groups whose needs it is organized to supply. ..."
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